{"id":306,"date":"2003-11-14T09:04:17","date_gmt":"2003-11-14T09:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=306"},"modified":"2003-11-14T09:04:17","modified_gmt":"2003-11-14T09:04:17","slug":"tv-news-truisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/11\/tv-news-truisms\/","title":{"rendered":"TV news truisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostremote.com\/story\/laws.htm\">From Steve Safran at Lost Remote<\/a> (nod to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzmachine.com\/\">BuzzMachine<\/a> for the link), who offers a ton of eternal truths that seem strikingly familiar to the stuff we see every day.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTHE LAW OF NEWS CONSPIRACIES<BR><br \/>\nThose who believe there is a &#8220;giant media conspiracy&#8221; have never seen three producers try to agree what to get on a pizza. <BR><BR><br \/>\nLAW OF REPORTING<BR><br \/>\nProducers will always give you 15 seconds less than you need to tell the story.<BR><BR><br \/>\nRESTATEMENT OF THE LAW OF REPORTING<BR><br \/>\nReporters will always take 15 seconds more than they need.<BR><BR><br \/>\nTHE THREEFOLD LAW OF NEWS EXPERIENCE<BR><br \/>\nYou will never get done paying your dues. You will always think your managers are nuts. You will never work in a market you can afford to live in.<BR><BR><br \/>\nTHE &#8220;VIEWERS ARE OUR CONSULTANTS&#8221; POSTULATE<BR><br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t affect change at your station. But if you send an anonymous email to the station suggesting the same change, it will occur.<BR><BR><br \/>\nHEISENBERG&#8217;S UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE, APPLIED TO NEWS<BR><br \/>\nThe time between an employee&#8217;s hire, and their complaint they are underpaid, is too small to be measured accurately.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Steve Safran at Lost Remote (nod to BuzzMachine for the link), who offers a ton of eternal truths that seem strikingly familiar to the stuff we see every day. THE LAW OF NEWS CONSPIRACIES Those who believe there is&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/11\/tv-news-truisms\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}